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On a beautiful mountain in Taiwan, Rossi Fang captured this photo of the warm sun melting the frozen mountain world of the night before.Following an overcast and rainy evening, the sun appeared through the clouds and mist just in time for Aung Chan Thar to capture this beautiful sunset photo in Myanmar.During a beautiful, calm evening in Tankerton, Kent, in England, Brendan Conway captured this image of people being treated to a spectacular mock mirage sunset over the Thames Estuary. He says that “a bonus mirage caused buildings in Southend to appear to levitate.”Days of heavy rain in the UK led to water cascading down the dam wall of Wet Sleddale reservoir near the village of Shap in Cumbria. Andrew McCaren captured this photo as he wanted to illustrate the heavy rain and strong winds brought to the UK by Storm Dennis in February 2020.During the early hours of the night, Luo Xing captured this photo of lightning strikes over Chongqing, in China.During the monsoon season in the wetlands of India’s West Bengal, Shibasish Saha captured this image of people collecting waterlilies to sell in the local market.Carlos Castillejo Balsera arrived in the dark, early morning to watch a big storm form over Barcelona, Spain. “As dawn was breaking, I could see a large waterspout sliding down in front of the harbour. From time to time, a flash of lightning illuminated the scene.”Two or three times a year, Črni Kal, a small town in Slovenia, experiences a temperature inversion which places fog under the highway bridge. When Sara Jazbar first arrived, there was a wall of fog, and the visibility was reduced to just a couple of meters. However, after waiting a few hours, this beautiful scene appeared.Periods of extreme heat in India can cause rivers and ponds to completely dry up, leaving humans and animals struggling to find water. Barun Rajgaria, who took this photo, explains that during “drought, the women and children of the village (in Purulia, West Bengal) have to make deep pits in the dry river, in which the frozen water quenches the thirst of the people here.”After chasing storms and showers across the UK’s Isle of Wight to capture some incredible rainbows, Jamie Russell reached Bembridge as the final shower left.Krzysztof Tollas captured a frosty and picturesque sunrise over the Gwda River in Poland.Harsh rain in Addis Ababa flooded the streets, but Betel Tibebu said that “in that misfortune comes the opportunity for photography.”On the cliff of Tavertet in Barcelona, Spain, with the sun low behind and the valley of Sau covered with fog, Emili Vilamala Benito waited until a Brocken Spectre appeared.On a full moon night, with a storm moving away and one last lightning strike, was what photographer Enric Navarrete Bachs called “dream lightning.”In Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden, Felipe Martin Menzella captured a beautiful icy pattern appearing just before dawn on a frosty window.
